Filed under: 1984, Airport Security, Big Brother, Britain, CCTV, Control Grid, Dictatorship, Empire, Europe, european union, Fascism, full-body scanners, london, mobile metal detectors, nanny state, New World Order, NWO, orwell, Police State, Science and technology, security cameras, Surveillance, United Kingdom, War On Terror, x-ray body scanner, x-ray scanner
X-Ray Devices That Scan Your Body on the Streets
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
January 8, 2009
Naked body scanners are being readied to go mobile and scan you on the street, at football games and any other event where masses of people are congregated, according to a leaked paper written by Dutch authorities.
As we have been warning all along, the tyranny now being metered out at airports was always intended to be rolled out onto the streets, with mobile metal detectors already being stationed at various transport hubs in the UK in the name of stopping knife crime.
Now Dutch police have announced that they are developing a mobile scanner that will “see through people’s clothing and look for concealed weapons”.
According to a confidential document, “The scanner could first be used as an alternative to random body searches in high risk areas. The mobile detector would enable the search to be carried out more quickly and would only be used on people suspected of carrying concealed weapons,” reports Dutch News.nl.
The device would also be used from a distance on groups of people “and mass scans on crowds at events such as football matches.”
“The biggest challenge is making it portable and ensuring it can carry out a scan in seconds,” Giampiero Gerini, a professor at Eindhoven University, told the paper.
The aim is to develop and deploy the device within three years. With police in major American and British cities already carrying out random searches of innocent people under routinely abused terrorism laws, mobile scanners are likely to be added to their arsenal, especially if people have been trained to accept their use as routine in airports.
Three years ago, leaked documents out of the Home Office revealed that authorities in the UK were working on proposals to fit lamp posts with CCTV cameras that would X-ray scan passers-by and “undress them” in order to “trap terror suspects”.
“The questions are when is this a useful addition to security and when does it become unduly intrusive and worrying to the public?” said Professor Paul Wilkinson, a terrorism expert.
Since everything that we see being installed at the airports is now gradually being introduced on the streets, how long will it be before mind-reading devices that scan individuals for behavioral psychology, now being discussed for use in airports, are stationed on every major street corner?
The technologies now being prepared not just for the airport, but for our everyday lives, are far more frightening and technologically advanced than anything George Orwell wrote about in 1984. Unless we stand up in unison and say enough is enough, our world will become a literal hi-tech prison grid characterized by a caste system of slaves and controllers.
Filed under: 1984, Airport Security, Anti-War, Big Brother, Britain, Camera Ban, CCTV, civil liberties, civil rights, curfew, Dictatorship, Dissent, domestic terror, domestic terrorism, Empire, european union, Fox News, free speech, jose torres, london, Martial Law, Media, nanny state, new jersey, New York, Oppression, Police State, Protest, sexual abuse, Surveillance, thought crime, thought criminal, u.s. constitution, United Kingdom | Tags: Paterson
New Jersey Mayor Considers Martial Law Curfew
EOK Parliament: Attempted Shutdown
Filed under: 1984, 2nd Amendment, anti gun, Big Brother, biometrics, Britain, California, CCTV, Control Grid, Dictatorship, Drivers License, education, education system, Empire, Europe, european union, facial recognition, Gun Control, nanny state, orwell, Police State, RFID, stasi, stasi tactics, Surveillance, United Kingdom, US Constitution, Washington D.C. | Tags: Firearms and Explosives, Home Office, Judge John A. Mendez, license plate, plate scan, Ramon Michael Clark, sacramento, Tobacco
Thumb-print required for buying bullets in California
Niesha Lofing
Sacramento Bee
August 14, 2008
A Sacramento man pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of ammunition by a felon after buying bullets from a local sporting goods store.
Ramon Michael Clark, 31, entered his guilty plea in federal court before U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez, according to a news release by the office of U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott.
Clark’s illegal activity came to light as a result of a pilot program requiring merchants to collect identifying information from people buying ammunition.
Clark bought 50 rounds of .25 caliber ammunition from Big 5 Sporting Goods on Mack Road in February.
Clark was required to submit his driver’s license and a thumbprint to complete the sale in compliance with a recently enacted ordinance, the release states.
Sacramento police used the information to determine that Clark had been convicted of possessing marijuana for sale and possessing narcotics while armed, both felonies.
Clark is scheduled to be sentenced by Mendez at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 4.
He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, the release states.
The case resulted from joint investigation by Sacramento police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Teachers fear hidden CCTV cameras in schools
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn..-cameras-in-schools.html
How Big Brother watches your every move
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news..atches-your-every-move.html
Police invite public to shop their neighbours for speeding
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/a..shop-neighbours-speeding.html
Security Officials To Scan DC License Plates
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1461567
Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, 9/11, 9/11 Truth, Airport Security, Big Brother, bill of rights, Britain, CCTV, civil liberties, civil rights, Control Grid, Darpa, DHS, Dictatorship, domestic terror, domestic terrorism, Empire, Europe, european union, Fascism, Ground Zero, Homeland Security, michael chertoff, militarized police, Military, Military Industrial Complex, nanny state, Nazi, New York, NYPD, NYSE, Oppression, orwell, Police State, Posse Comitatus, privacy rights, stasi, stasi tactics, Surveillance, TSA, United Kingdom, urban warfare, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: Combat Zones That See, cop cam, CTS, donna lieberman, license plate, Manhattan, new yorkers' civil liberties, NYCLU, operation sentinel, plate scan, plate scanning, police fortress, radiation, radiation detector, ray kelly, red light camera, ring of steel, toll camera, union
New York Turns Into a High-Tech Police Fortress
Antifascist
August 14, 2008
However, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) has denounced the proposal as “an attack on New Yorkers’ right to privacy.” NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman lambasted this outrageous proposal saying,
Despite repeated attempts by NYCLU to obtain information on Operation Sentinel, NYPD and DHS have refused to provide any information about their mega-surveillance system. While all traces of CTS disappeared from DARPA’s website, portions of the program have resurfaced with a vengeance, courtesy of the NYPD and DHS.
According to New York Times reporter Al Baker,
Data on each vehicle–its time-stamped image, license plate imprint and radiological signature–would be sent to a command center in Lower Manhattan, where it would be indexed and stored for at least a month as part of a broad security plan that emphasizes protecting the city’s financial district, the spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said. If it were not linked to a suspicious vehicle or a law enforcement investigation, it would be eliminated, he said. (“City Would Photograph Every Vehicle Entering Manhattan and Sniff Out Radiation,” The New York Times, August 12, 2008)
Filed under: 1984, 2012 olympics, Big Brother, brainwashing, Britain, carbon dioxide, CCTV, Co2, Conditioning, Control Grid, Europe, european union, garbage police, globlal warming, litter police, london, Media, nanny state, olympics, orwell, Spy, Surveillance, Taxpayers, thought crime, thought criminal, United Kingdom, War On Terror | Tags: DVLA, facecrime
Huge Orwellian Telescreens Used During 2012 Olympics
Times Online
July 25, 2008
“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…“
– George Orwell, 1984
Anyone who has lived without a television will know how hard it is to convince TV Licensing staff that is possible to exist without constant video entertainment. It is one more freedom that is to be taken from us. Like the telescreens in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that citizens could turn down but not off, the giant screens planned for 60 towns and cities will make watching television compulsory.
When the BBC and the organising committee of the London Olympics first mooted a network of screens the assumption was that they would be there only during the Games, allowing us all to share the excitement. It turns out that they are to stay and broadcast audibly for up to 18 hours a day.
As if the intrusion were not bad enough, we will, of course, have to pay for the screens, and not just through the licence fee: residents of Middlesbrough, for example, will be paying £35,000 towards the set-up costs, plus an annual £28,000 running cost. Surely councils’ leisure budgets should be spent persuading us to get away from the TV, not to get us in front of it.
It is promised that besides showing news the screens will be used to promote culture; that they will be “digital canvases for local artists, film-makers and students”. But there is an ulterior motive, given away by Bob Belam, of Waltham Forest council. The screens, he said, would be used to “provide important information and will be able to get out messages about antisocial behaviour”.
They are less about entertaining us than about control – another part of the Orwellian machinery of the modern British city. It isn’t hard to imagine how they will be used: “We are interrupting coverage to remind you that bathing in the fountains is prohibited.”
I can foresee walking through an empty town centre, to the sound of a message, delivered with no irony from a 30kW screen: “Citizens are reminded that they can cut their carbon footprint by not leaving their TVs on standby.”
http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i46/46a00103.htm
Town hall spies using DVLA files to catch people dropping litter and making too much noise
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl..ople-dropping-litter-making-noise.html
Filed under: 1984, 2008 olympics, beijing, Big Brother, CCTV, Censorship, China, civil liberties, civil rights, George Bush, google, human rights, internet, internet blackout, Internet Filtering, internet police, Iraq, neocons, olympics, Oppression, orwell, Police State, sam brownback, Senate, Spy, Surveillance, warrantless search, warrantless wiretap | Tags: falungong, falungong practitioners, Public Security Bureau
China Spying On Internet Use In Hotels
AP
July 29, 2008
Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of “severe retaliation” if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday.
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., produced a translated version of a document from China’s Public Security Bureau that requires hotels to use the monitoring equipment.
“These hotels are justifiably outraged by this order, which puts them in the awkward position of having to craft pop-up messages explaining to their customers that their Web history, communications, searches and key strokes are being spied on by the Chinese government,” Brownback said at a news conference.
A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Brownback said several international hotel chains confirmed receiving the order from China’s Public Security Bureau. The hotels are in a bind, he said, because they don’t want to comply with the order, but also don’t want to jeopardize their investment of millions of dollars to expand their businesses in China. The hotel chains that forwarded the order to Brownback are declining to reveal their identities for fear of reprisal.
Earlier this year, the U.S. State Department issued a fact sheet warning travelers attending the Olympic games that “they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public or private locations” in China.
“All hotel rooms and offices are considered to be subject to on-site or remote technical monitoring at all times,” the agency states.
The Public Security Bureau order threatens that failure to comply could result in financial penalties, suspending access to the Internet or the loss of a license to operate a hotel in China.
“If you were a human rights advocate, if you’re a journalist, you’re in room 1251 of a hotel, anything that you use, sending out over the Internet is monitored in real time by the Chinese Public Security bureau,” Brownback said. “That’s not right. It’s not in the Olympic spirit.”
Brownback and other lawmakers have repeatedly denounced China’s record of human rights abuses and asked President Bush not to attend the Olympic opening ceremonies in Beijing.
Brownback was introducing a resolution in the Senate on Tuesday that urges China to reverse its actions.
China To Censor Internet During Olympics
AP
July 29, 2008
China will censor the Internet used by foreign media during the Olympics, an organising committee official confirmed Wednesday, reversing a pledge to offer complete media freedom at the games.
“During the Olympic Games we will provide sufficient access to the Internet for reporters,” said Sun Weide, spokesman for the organising committee.
He confirmed, however, that journalists would not be able to access information or websites connected to the Falungong spiritual movement which is banned in China.
Other sites were also unavailable to journalists, he said, without specifying which ones.
Olympic panel ends ban, says Iraq can go to games
http://home.peoplepc.com/..3421_1334520080729-294375139
China Hits Back At U.S. Stands Firm On Internet
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2008073..sGtapUp0mOsYxUinOROrgF
Google Says Privacy Doesn’t Exist, Get Used To Everyone Knowing Everything About You
http://www.informationweek.com/b..R0QSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN
Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, Big Brother, biometrics, Britain, cancer, cashless society, CCTV, Control Grid, Echelon, Europe, european union, FISA, gps, health and environment, london, Media, microchip, neocons, Oppression, orwell, Police State, prison industrial complex, RFID, Science and technology, spy satellite, Surveillance, United Kingdom, US Constitution, Verichip, War On Terror, warrantless search | Tags: lab rats
RFID Chip Implants Cause Cancer in Lab-Rats
Filed under: 2nd Amendment, anti gun, Britain, Brownshirt, brownshirts, CBS, CCTV, Checkpoints, Child Abuse, Control Grid, Dictatorship, Dissent, Empire, Europe, european union, knock and talk, Martial Law, Nazi, occupation, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Protest, Sarkozy, Taser Guns, United Kingdom, US Constitution, Washington D.C.
Caught on CCTV: Officer decides to pick-on homeless man
CBS Propagandizes D.C. Checkpoints
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036728/Pho..proof-anti-social-behaviour.html
Police corruption panel lawyer fired after she questions Taser zap of teen
http://www.nydailynews.com..ption_panel_lawyer_fired_aft.html
Man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 times
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/22/taser.death/index.html
Police Taser Injured Teen On His Back
http://www.ky3.com/home/video/25829234.html
Sarkozy sets up police database for political activists
http://www.newropeans-magazine.org/content/view/8379/1/
Police trained by Civil Rights Violators
http://mparent7777-1.livejournal.com/1029594.html?thread=125146t125146
Off-Duty Police Bring Home Impounded Cars
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=10829
D.C. Resumes Nazi-Like Checkpoints
http://www.washingtonpost…2008/07/19/AR2008071901679_pf.html
Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, Big Brother, breathalyzer, Britain, California, Camera Ban, Canada, CCTV, Checkpoints, Control Grid, Dictatorship, DNA Database, european union, GM, london, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Surveillance, Taser Guns, United Kingdom, US Constitution
Austin wants officers to stick needles in drunk drivers
KXAN
July 1, 2008
AUSTIN, Texas – Austin’s police chief has a new idea to draw your blood if you refuse a Breathalyzer test.
Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo is hoping to start the program this year with a federal grant. It would train his DWI officers to take you to jail and get a search warrant for your blood.
“My intent in the future is to make it so there is no such thing as a refusal. You can refuse all you want, but we are going to aggressively seek search warrants,” said Acevedo.
The search warrant would give an officer the right to stick a needle in your arm to get a blood alcohol level, replacing the job of a jail nurse.
“It’s about saving money for the taxpayer. If I have an officer that’s already involved in a case, they’re already going to be going to court. Come to find out, the defense attorneys around here are telling people not to give them a test,” said Acevedo.
“Folks that are exercising their right shouldn’t be afraid, that by doing so, ’Bubba Police Officer’ may stick them in the arm,” said Austin DWI attorney Ken Gibson. Police officers shouldn’t play nurse as well. he added.
“The officer’s going to have a liability if they don’t do it right. The city’s going to have a liability if they don’t do it right. Police officers don’t want to be out sticking needles in people,” said Gibson.
“If I could snap my fingers tomorrow and say, ’Hey, give me four to five nurses on my staff,’ I’d be more than happy to do it, but that’s not going to work,” said Acevedo. Instead, Acevedo said he’s got a whole fleet of officers ready to train.
“Probably as many as I can get the federal government to train for me,” Acevedo said.
Austin Police Association President George Vanderhule learned about the proposal Monday from KXAN Austin News. He said he did not want to comment on behalf of his officers until he spoke with Acevedo.
Acevedo said he would not ask for taxpayer money in Austin but at the federal level. He’s hoping to start the program by the end of this year.
DNC protests will be behind fence
Denver Post
June 30, 2008
The fence around the public demonstration zone outside the Democratic National Convention will be chicken wire or chain link, authorities revealed in U.S. District Court today.
That may allow protestors to be seen and heard by delegates going in and out of the Pepsi Center during the convention.
But the American Civil Liberties Union and several advocacy groups have filed an amended complaint to their lawsuit against the U.S. Secret Service and the city and county of Denver that says protestors and demonstrators may have their First Amendment rights violated by security restrictions.
The ACLU has said it wants to avoid the conditions that existed during the 2004 convention in Boston, where protesters were caged, infuriating First Amendment advocates.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23951515-5016937,00.html
“And Leave the Laptop with Us”
http://www.ohmproject.org/..k=view&id=69&Itemid=1
Atlanta Police stalk Critical Mass
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-40338
Taser use could put police under fire
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/451010
Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Coming
http://www.motorists…in-car-breathalyzers-coming/
Roadside Blood & Urine Testing In Canada
http://www.canada.com/..=74d88f4a-64ef-4999-8845-40d1f1cd3058
Policeman Charged After Woman Body Slammed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2008062..t=AjaJlCiygpEHvPX9ZkyyZflH2ocA
Man Accused Of Killing Pr. George’s Officer Dies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/c..tml?referrer=emailarticle#
Police Used “Agents Provocateurs” At UK Bush Protests
http://www.infowars.net/articles/june2008/260608Provocateurs.htm
Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, Big Brother, breathalyzer, Britain, California, Camera Ban, Canada, CCTV, Checkpoints, Control Grid, Dictatorship, DNA Database, european union, GM, london, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Surveillance, Taser Guns, United Kingdom, US Constitution | Tags: MADD, Toyota
Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Coming
Eric Peters
Motorists.org
June 25, 2008
If you’re not a convicted drunk driver, should you still be required to have an in-car breathalyzer fitted (at your expense, ‘natch) to your next new vehicle?
Apparently, some automakers — including GM and Toyota — think so. They and a few others are working together under the auspices of something called the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, which is a $10 million federal “research program” that is trying to develop just such technology for mass introduction a few years from now.
At the moment, the only people who have to deal with (and pay for) in-car Breathalyzers are convicted drunks; the devices are basically ignition locks that prevent the vehicle’s engine from being started until the would-be driver blows into the tube and the system determines he’s not liquored up.
But by 2012 or so, in-car breath sniffers could be standard equipment in every new vehicle sold, force-fed to you by the tag team of Washington, Detroit and, of course, the ever-busy Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
No conviction necessary.
Advocates say the technology under development would be “less intrusive.” Instead of making the driver blow into a little tube like they make you do at those roadside “sobriety checkpoints,” a system of passive alcohol sensors would be fitted to the car that could take a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) reading via a person’s skin — as when your hand touches the shifter or steering wheel. This “quiet” approach is supposed to make us feel better about being pre-convicted and treated like known and duly processed irresponsible drunks every single time we get behind the wheel of a car.
Roadside Blood & Urine Testing In Canada
Montreal Gazette
June 25, 2008
Drivers who get behind the wheel while high on drugs will face roadside testing and they could be ordered to surrender urine, blood or saliva samples at the police station under a controversial new law that takes effect one week from today.
Drivers who refuse to comply will be subject to a minimum $1,000 fine – the same penalty for refusing the breathalyzer.
Police will be given their new powers to nab drug-impaired drivers after almost five years of intense debate in Parliament.
The law, passed this year after three failed attempts, has been lauded by law enforcement and other groups who say drug-impaired drivers are escaping unpunished at a time when their numbers are climbing.
“Love it,” said Gregg Thomson, a father from Kanata, Ont., who predicted yesterday the new testing will deter people from driving under the influence of drugs, just as the breathalyzer test produced a drop in drunk driving.
Thomson has been lobbying for a new law since 1999, when his son, Stan, and four of his high school friends were killed when a 17-year-old who had been smoking marijuana attempted a highway pass that led to a pileup.
The crash became a catalyst for the group Mothers Against Drunk Driving to start pushing for changes to the Criminal Code, which outlaws drug-impaired driving, but until now has not included measures that allow police to order a battery of tests.
The new law, however, has sparked warnings about potential court battles from critics who contend demanding bodily fluids is overly intrusive and scientifically unreliable in detecting drug impairment.
“This is going to be challenged left and right,” predicted Murray Mollard, executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.
Beginning next Wednesday, drivers suspected of being high will be required to perform physical tests at the side of the road, such as walking a straight line. If they fail, they will be sent to the police station for further testing by a trained “drug recognition expert” and then be forced to give blood, urine, or saliva samples if they flunk the second test as well.
Critics say while there is a measurable link between blood alcohol levels and driving ability, research is lacking to equate drug quantity and impairment.
Another potential problem in testing bodily fluids is that they can detect marijuana smoked several days or months earlier and the effect has worn off.
“This kind of testing doesn’t test for impairment, it tests for past use of a substance and we know with certain substances they stay for a long time,” Mollard said.
California Will Try To Ban Driving With Cell Phones
AP
June 26, 2008
Next week California will try to wrest cell phones from the hands of drivers, telling everyone from movie starlets and dot-com millionaires to surfers and soccer moms that conversations behind the wheel must be on a headset.
Several U.S. states and some two dozen countries around the world already have restrictions on mobile phones while driving but now such a law has come to California — where the car is king and much of life is spent on the famously snarled freeways.
Californians interviewed by Reuters mostly supported the law requiring hands-free phones in cars and outlawing cell phones entirely for drivers under 18, which takes effect on Tuesday — though they were puzzled by a loophole that allows seemingly more dangerous text messaging.
Others cast a jaundiced eye on lawmakers, who they blame for failing to build more freeways or public transportation in the face of increasingly gridlocked roads in the nation’s most populous state and say hands-free conversations are no safer.
“I can’t believe that (Californians) will put up with all these nanny, nit-picking laws,” KFI-AM radio talk-show host John Kobylt told Reuters.
“It’s stupid because we’ve gone over about seven different studies and each one of them says it’s the conversation that distracts you, not holding the phone,” he said.
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Change Your Grades On Computer Face 38 Years
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“I Think I’m Being Watched” posters in London Underground
http://www.infowars.net/articles/june2008/240608beingwatched.htm
Seizing Laptops and Cameras Without Cause
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/seizinglaptopsandcameraswithoutcause
Photographers You Are All Al-Qaeda Suspects
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008..grapher_stops/print.html
Man dies in custody after Taser incident involving Ontario police
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/080623/canada/toronto_taser_death
British use anti-terror cameras to spy on litterbugs
http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/..cameras-to-spy-on-litterbugs/
Artificially Intelligent CCTV Cameras
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/CCTV-cameras-with–an.4214414.jp
Surveillance Cameras To Be Installed Throughout City
http://www.wlwt.com/news/16711143/detail.html
Is Britain Turning Into A Dictatorship?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/22/civilliberties
Justice Department’s interim report into deaths points to need for strict limits on use of Tasers
Overzealous drug war claims another casualty
Boca Raton Proposes City-Wide Surveillance System
Real Time Crime Detection Cameras
The Bush administration now wants to watch you from the sky
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, Britain, carbon dioxide, CCTV, Co2, eco nazi, Europe, garbage police, Global Warming, gordon brown, ice age, litter police, litter wardens, microchip, Oppression, Police State, Surveillance, tax, Taxpayers, United Kingdom
’Bin bureaucrats’ secretly taking families’ wheelie-bins to sift and weigh the food they throw out
Daily Mail
June 10, 2008
Householders are having their rubbish secretly sifted and weighed to see how much food they are throwing away, it has emerged.
Wheelie-bins are being taken from residents without their knowledge, and spot checked to see how many scraps of food are in them and how much they weigh.
No permission is sought for the ’sampling’ exercise and the householder is simply presented with a new bin.
Council taxpayers in Sussex have reacted furiously to the latest example of ’bin bureaucracy’ and said officials had no right to snoop on the contents of their refuse.
Officials at Tory-run Mid-Sussex District Council attempted to reassure locals by telling them it is a ’fact-finding’ exercise to gauge how much food is being dumped.
But residents branded the survey – which cost £1,700 – an invasion of privacy and fear it is the first step towards charging residents who fail to meet Government recycling targets.
Mother-of-three Michelle Gregory, 46, of Haywards Heath, received a letter sent to her by the council explaining they were looking through her waste the day after her regular rubbish collection.
She said: ’It just seems to be the way the world is going with CCTV cameras, ID cards and fingerprinting at schools.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10..ns-lift-just-fingers.html
Homeowners Face Possible Rubbish Caps
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article..et-Government-plans.html
Lack Of Sun Activity Could Bring New Ice Age
http://www.livescience.com/space/080611-sunspot-activity.html
In praise of CO2
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=569586
Ban Bon Fires To Fight Climate Change?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/366025_bonfire06.html
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, biometrics, Britain, CCTV, Control Grid, David Davis, Dictatorship, DNA Database, Europe, european union, Fascism, free press, free speech, gordon brown, Habeas Corpus, london, magna carta, Police State, Protest, Surveillance, United Kingdom
UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days
BBC
June 12, 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has narrowly won a House of Commons vote on extending the maximum time police can hold terror suspects to 42 days. More
I personally would like to say that I couldn’t believe that this was could happen, but I can’t. These sorts of laws have been drafted and voted in time and time again in the UK. This particular one holds the probability that even if you’re found innocent, by the time the 42 days is up, chances are, everything you’ve ever had will be gone — job, home, family.
Oh there is talk of compensation packages available for the falsely accused, chances of you getting that money however is slim to none, lets not forget, this is the same country that charges prisoners, who have been falsely accused for bed and boarding costs.
Davis Resigns U.K. Parliament to Protest Terror Law
Bloomberg
June 12, 2008
David Davis, the lawmaker in charge of home affairs policy for Britain’s opposition Conservative Party, resigned his seat in Parliament to force an electoral contest over government limits on civil liberties.
Davis, 59, will campaign to return to the House of Commons, arguing against Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s national identification card program and his plan to let police detain terrorism suspects up to 42 days without charge.
“This is a by-election against the slow strangulation of fundamental British freedoms by this government,’’ Davis told journalists today in London.
Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, Big Brother, CCTV, Child Abuse, Concentration Camp, New York, US Constitution
Teenager tasered for not having drivers license
Police dash cam:Recently released video obtained through the freedom of information act from the Medical Lake Police Dept.Driver alleges police officer tasered him for failing to produce drivers license….officer claims the suspect was resisting arrest.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TUopRbvTnZk
Man hassled by cops for filming in London
Current.com
May 26, 2008
Thousands of UK residents have signed a petition against a law preventing photography and filming in certain public places. Yet this all turned out to be a misunderstanding, and no such law was proposed. Rajesh investigates the way we view the lens and the way it views us.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NjS9L5BVAl8
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/26/conservatives.welfare
Nosey Businessman Calls Cops on Innocent Mother
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Nanny State Targets Boaters
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Unmarked chopper patrols NY city from high above
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Tories pledge to curb use of CCTV cameras
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Mobiles help UK malls track shoppers’ every move
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/20/tracking_phones/
Rockford police to add surveillance cameras with CrimeStoppers grant
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FBI Spies On IMs E-Mails And Cell Phones
John Bryne
Raw Story
April 8, 2008
FBI also spies on home soil for military, documents show; Much information acquired without court order
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of suspects across the United States — and has done so, in many cases, without the approval of a court.
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and given to the Washington Post — which stuck the story on page three — show that the FBI’s massive dragnet, connected to the backends of telecommunications carriers, “allows authorized FBI agents and analysts, with point-and-click ease, to receive e-mails, instant messages, cellphone calls and other communications that tell them not only what a suspect is saying, but where he is and where he has been, depending on the wording of a court order or a government directive,” the Post says.
But agents don’t need a court order to track to track the senders and recipients names, or how long calls or email exchanges lasted. These can be obtained simply by showing it’s “relevant” to a probe.
RAW STORY has placed a request to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the new documents, and will post them upon receipt.
Some transactional data is obtained using National Security Letters. The Justice Department says use of these letters has risen from 8,500 in 2000 to 47,000 in 2005, according to the Post.
Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union released letters showing that the Pentagon is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance.
Documents show the FBI has obtained the private records of Americans’ Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, for the military, according to more than 1,000 Pentagon documents reviewed by the ACLU — also using National Security Letters, without a court order.
The new revelations show definitively that telecommunications companies can transfer “with the click of a mouse, instantly transfer key data along a computer circuit to an FBI technology office in Quantico” upon request.
A telecom whistleblower, in an affidavit, has said he help maintain a high-speed DS-3 digital line referred to in house as the “Quantico circuit,” which allowed an outside organization “unfettered” access to the the carrier’s wireless network.
The network he’s speaking of? Verizon.
Verizon denies the allegations vaguely, saying “no government agency has open access to the company’s networks through electronic circuits.”
The Justice Department downplayed the new documents.
A spokesman told the Post that the US is asking only for “information at the beginning and end of a communication, and for information “reasonably available” by the network.
The FBI’s budget for says the collection system increased from $30 million in 2007 to $40 million in 2008, the paper said.
Homeland Security invokes nuclear bomb, as Bush quietly links cybersecurity program to NSA
John Byrne
Raw Story
April 9, 2008
Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has dropped the bomb.
At a speech to hundreds of security professionals Wednesday, Chertoff declared that the federal government has created a cyber security “Mahattan Project,” referencing the 1941-1946 project led by the Army Corps of Engineers to develop American’s first atomic bomb.
According to Wired’s Ryan Singel, Chertoff gave few details of what the government actually plans to do.
He cites a little-noticed presidential order: “In January, President Bush signed a presidential order expanding the role of DHS and the NSA in government computer security,” Singel writes. “Its contents are classified, but the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has said he wants the NSA to monitor America’s internet traffic and Google searches for signs of cyber attack.“
The National Security Agency was the key player in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program, which was revealed by the New York Times in 2005.
Sound familiar? Yesterday, documents acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation under the Freedom of Information act showed the FBI has engaged in a massive cyber surveillance project that targets terror suspects emails, telephone calls and instant messages — and is able to get some information without a court order.
Last week, the ACLU revealed documents showing that the Pentagon was using the FBI to spy on Americans. The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans’ Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, according to Pentagon documents.
Chertoff sought to calm those who worry that Homeland Security will begin to take an invasive Internet role.
“We don’t have to sit on the internet and prevent things from coming in or going out,” Chertoff said, which Singel says refers to China and other countries that censor what web sites their citizens can see. “That’s not what we are going to do.”
Bush wants $42 million more for program
But Chertoff may have had another reason for hyping threats of cyber terrorism. Money.
Congress appropriated $150 million in funding for the program this year, Singel notes. The administration has sought $192 million for 2009.
Speaking of threats, Chertoff remarked: “Imagine, if you will, a sophisticated attack on our financial systems that caused them to be paralyzed. It would shake the foundation of trust on which our financial system works.”
Remarked Singel wryly, “That digital mushroom cloud scenario means the government’s role in computer security must extend beyond federal networks, and reach to shared responsibility for financial, telecommunication and transportation infrastructure, Chertoff said. “The failure of any single system has cascading effects across our country.”
Which recalls another quote by a senior administration official.
Speaking of the alleged threat of Saddam Hussein in 2003, then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice remarked, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/zombie-computer.html
Cyber Security Efforts Like Manhattan Project
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New Documents Detail FBI Eavesdropping On Americans’ Emails, IMs and Phone Calls
http://infowars.net/articles/april2008/080408FBI.htm
DHS Wants to Install Permanent Checkpoint in Vermont
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Hillary Supports Expanded Police State
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3-Years For Laser Pointer Assault On Helicopter
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Anti-Terror Laws Used To Spy On Family
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100 Officers Raid Car Show To Give Tickets
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D.C. police set to monitor 5,000 cameras
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CCTV could be used in exam rooms
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Roadside cameras that detect BLOOD will catch lone drivers who abuse car-sharing lanes
Daily Mail
February 24, 2008
Motorists will be targeted by a new generation of road cameras which work out how many people are in a car by measuring the amount of bodily fluid it contains.
The latest snooping device on the nation’s roads aims to penalise lone drivers who abuse car-sharing lanes, and is part of a Government effort to combat congestion at busy times.
The cameras work by sending an infrared beam through the windscreen of vehicles which detects the unique make-up of blood and water content in human skin.
The system’s inventors believe it will catch out motorists who try to fool existing CCTV road cameras by placing mannequins in passenger seats or fixing photographs to windscreens.
Police in retreat after public backlash over their demands for a DNA database
Daily Mail
February 25, 2008
Police were in retreat last night after a public backlash over plans to take the DNA of people who drop litter or fail to wear a seatbelt.
Opposition was also hardening against a universal UK database which would create a “nation of suspects”.
But there were growing calls to extend the current register of 4.5million samples in other ways.
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett said more people should be encouraged to volunteer their DNA, while the Tories said there should be a trawl for any serious criminals not already logged.
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Man Jailed For Giving Manicure Without License
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Police Taser Naked Old Guy
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Public Housing Could Be Under Surveillance
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San Jose Police Deploy Sonic Weapon
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School removes CCTV cameras from children’s toilets after furious protest from parents
Daily Mail
February 21, 2008
A school has been forced to remove CCTV cameras they installed in the students’ toilets after furious protests from pupils and parents.
Hundreds of outraged students petitioned against the cameras after they spotted them in the toilets and even refused to use the loos all day so they were not caught on CCTV.
Other children were kept at home by their families rather than expose themselves to the “gross invasion of privacy”.
The cameras were installed at Lipson Community College in Plymouth, Devon, which has 1,400 pupils.
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Government wants personal details of every traveller
Ian Traynor
Guardian
February 23 2008
Passengers travelling between EU countries or taking domestic flights would have to hand over a mass of personal information, including their mobile phone numbers and credit card details, as part of a new package of security measures being demanded by the British government. The data would be stored for 13 years and used to “profile” suspects.
Brussels officials are already considering controversial anti-terror plans that would collect up to 19 pieces of information on every air passenger entering or leaving the EU. Under a controversial agreement reached last summer with the US department of homeland security, the EU already supplies the same information [19 pieces] to Washington for all passengers flying between Europe and the US.
But Britain wants the system extended to sea and rail travel, to be applied to domestic flights and those between EU countries. According to a questionnaire circulated to all EU capitals by the European commission, the UK is the only country of 27 EU member states that wants the system used for “more general public policy purposes” besides fighting terrorism and organised crime.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/..s/2008/02/21/npark121.xml
Mandatory DNA database rejected
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My baby had cancer but social workers falsely accused me of child abuse and took all three of my children
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FAA Approves Miami Police UAV
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Amtrak to begin random searches; officers with automatic weapons, bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms
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FDNY Spies
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Airport Security Scanner Toy for Kids!
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Cop Assaults 14 Year Old Skater
Viral YouTube video gets abusive cop suspended
Baltimore Sun
February 14, 2008
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMKyJRAabE
Tampa, Florida – The Hillsborough Co. Sheriff’s Office held a press conference at 10:30am regarding the deputy who can be seen on video dumping a man in a wheelchair onto the ground.
They’ve announced that Deputy Charlette Jones has been relieved of her duties without pay pending the outcome of an investigation. She has not officially been terminated.
Jones has been employed by the Hillsborough Co. Sheriff’s Office since 1996.
Chief Deputy Joe Docobo watched the video for the first time last night and said he found himself in “disgust” and was “appalled at every level.”
Docobo also announced that two corporals and a sergeant involved are now on administrative leave with pay, and the jail supervisor on duty did not have knowledge of the incident.
Brian Sterner broke his neck almost 14 years ago and is a quadriplegic.
Sterner, who can drive, was arrested on a traffic violation. When he was booked into the Orient Road Jail last month, Sterner couldn’t believe what happened.
He says a deputy looked at him and didn’t believe he was a quadriplegic. She walked behind him, took the handles on the back of the hospital-grade wheel chair and dumped it forward.
Sterner says he tried to roll as he was going down, but hit so hard he thought he had broken two ribs. Then, while he was on the floor, deputies frisked him and tried to get him back into the chair.
Arrested, caged and DNA tested – for using MP3
UK Metro
February 13, 2008
A commuter was arrested at gunpoint and had his DNA and fingerprints taken simply for listening to his MP3 player while waiting for a bus.
Darren Nixon was surrounded by armed police after his music player was mistaken for a gun.
When a passer-by saw the 28-year-old get out his black Philips machine to change tracks, she panicked and dialled 999.
Police tracked Mr Nixon using CCTV. As he got off the bus home from work he was surrounded by a firearms unit, who bundled him into a van.
He was then put in a cell and his fingerprints, DNA and mugshot were taken before he was released.
Although police realised it was a false alarm, Mr Nixon, from Stoke-on-Trent, now has to live with his DNA stored on a national database.
The force will also keep on record that he was arrested on suspicion of a firearms offence.
Mr Nixon said: ‘It was unreal – I had a completely clean record before this and have always been a law-abiding citizen.’ The mechanic said that, as he got off the bus, he saw a policeman gesture but could not hear what he said.
Mr Nixon added: ‘As I got closer, I could see that two of the cops had guns. My heart was racing a mile a minute. One of them was hiding behind a car door, looking down his sight at me, and the other was shouting orders and pointing a gun at me.
‘I turned the music off and they were telling me to put my hands up in the air.’
DNA records are kept for life so that they can be matched to future samples.
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7/7 Ripple Effect
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Filed under: Britain, CCTV, Diana, Duke of Edinburgh, european union, Mi6, Milosevic, Prince Charles, Prince Phillip, United Kingdom
Diana’s Driver ‘Met MI6 Spy’ on Crash Night
Daily Express
October 7, 2007
Renegade spy Richard Tomlinson will tell the Princess Diana inquest that he believes Ritz hotel security chief Henri Paul met an MI6 handler on the night she died.
Today we also reveal a French spy chief allegedly seen chatting to Paul on the night of the crash is refusing to give evidence at the inquest.
Mr Tomlinson, a former MI6 officer once jailed for leaking Government secrets, will make sensational claims via a videolink from his bolthole in France to the inquest in London.
He is refusing to return to Britain to give evidence in person because he fears he will be arrested and jailed. Cambridge-educated Mr Tomlinson, 40, will give evidence supporting the claim by Harrods tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed that there was an Establishment plot to kill Diana to stop her marrying his son, Dodi, a Muslim.
Private testimony that Mr Tomlinson gave earlier caused ructions within MI6, leading to him being closely monitored by the British security services. Mr Tomlinson told the French examining magistrate Herve Stephan that a Frenchman working in the security department at the Paris Ritz was on MI6’s books.
He added: “I cannot claim that I remember from reading this file that the name of the person was Henri Paul but I have no doubt with the benefit of hindsight that it was he.”
In 2001 he claimed: “Henri Paul, who was the driver at the time of the accident, was an MI6 informer and, rather interestingly, he was missing for about half an hour before the accident.
“No one knows where he was and then when he was killed he was found with a very high alcohol level in his blood and a very substantial amount of money in his pocket.
“Now putting those three pieces of circumstantial evidence together, I suspect that shortly prior to his death he was in a meeting with his MI6 handler.
He added: “I cannot claim that I remember from reading this file that the name of the person was Henri Paul but I have no doubt with the benefit of hindsight that it was he.”
In 2001 he claimed: “Henri Paul, who was the driver at the time of the accident, was an MI6 informer and, rather interestingly, he was missing for about half an hour before the accident.
“No one knows where he was and then when he was killed he was found with a very high alcohol level in his blood and a very substantial amount of money in his pocket.
“Now putting those three pieces of circumstantial evidence together, I suspect that shortly prior to his death he was in a meeting with his MI6 handler.
“I think that MI6 should hand over his personal file as a witness statement because clearly in an inquest into his death, knowing where he was for that missing half hour, who he was with and how much alcohol he had drunk are very important factors.
“What I am saying is that there is important information in MI6 files and I think that they should be handed over to the judge in charge of the inquest.”
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Express from his home in France, Mr Tomlinson said he will reveal discussions he had within MI6 in May 1992 with a colleague about an assassination plot.
The Sunday Express has been given the identity of the MI6 man he spoke to but we are not publishing his name on the grounds that his security may be compromised.
Mr Tomlinson said: “I was having a serious discussion with a colleague on developing and targeting operations in the Balkans. These were known as P/40s. He handed me a Y-file, identified as most restricted by the yellow stripe on the front. Inside was a document, two typed pages long, with a small yellow card attached to signify it was an accountable account rather than a draft proposal.
“Accountable meant it was in a ready to act state. It was entitled ‘The Need to Assassinate President Milosevic of Serbia’. I distributed it to senior MI6 officers.
“There were detailed discussions and the consensus was that a stun device could be used to dazzle the driver’s gaze of Milosevic’s car as it passed through the Geneva tunnel, forcing him to crash.”
Milosevic was to attend an international conference on the former Yugoslavia.
Mr Tomlinson added: “What later struck me about the deaths of Diana and Dodi was that the claims how they had died mimicked what was in the document on how to assassinate Milosevic.
“I will testify that the Y-file document shows Henri Paul could have been blinded as he drove through the Paris underpass by a high-powered flashlight.
“The Y-file proves this was a technique which, at the time of Diana and Dodi’s deaths, was consistent with MI6 methods.”
The inquest into the death of Diana and Dodi has seen CCTV footage of the couple in and around the Ritz Hotel in Paris on the night of August 30, 1997.
But the inquest has been told there were gaps in the movements of Henri Paul, the hotel’s acting head of security. He left the hotel between 7pm and 10pm, thinking his duties were over, but returned when Diana and Mr Fayed unexpectedly returned to the hotel for a meal.
Where Mr Paul went during those crucial three hours has never been fully explained. There is also a period when he went missing for eight and a half minutes from 10.22pm when he was not picked up on any CCTV cameras.
The investigation into the crash carried out by former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Stevens decided that Mr Tomlinson was unreliable and that he had embellished his accounts.
Scotland Yard detectives working for Lord Stevens carried out detailed investigations at MI6. They discovered that an MI6 officer, codenamed Fish, did write a proposal in 1993 to assassinate an extremist Balkans leader, but it was not Milosevic, and senior officers in the service said the man was acting alone and the plan would not have been sanctioned.
Mr Tomlinson said: “The two Stevens’ detectives said in their own inquiries at MI6 that it became very clear that what I had told them, and which they had confirmed in the MI6 files, would have an important influence on how the Stevens inquiry finally reported.
“There is no doubt at all there was a major intelligence presence in events leading up to the death of Princess Diana and Dodi.”
New Zealand born Mr Tomlinson joined MI6 as agent D/813317 in 1991. He worked as a “targeting officer”, serving in the Balkans and Moscow. Later he served in the East European Controllerate, one of the most important departments in the Secret Intelligence Service. It gave him access to the highly restricted Y-files.
He was sacked in 1995 and was jailed for a year in December 1997 for breaching the Official Secrets Act, a sentence which has left him with bitter memories.
He says he does not know why he was sacked, but admits he was depressed when he finished working in Bosnia because of the dreadful sights he witnessed. Last March the Crown Prosecution Service announced that it would not be prosecuting Mr Tomlinson for offences under the Official Secrets Act.
The then Attorney General Lord Goldsmith decided it would not be in the public interest to continue legal action against him.
It was alleged that Mr Tomlinson had committed blackmail offences by threatening to make more disclosures because Scotland Yard would not return computers seized from him.
Dodi bodyguard’s wife blasts ‘sinister’ weekend
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Diana jeweller: It WAS an engagement ring, but police made me change my story
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Prince Philip ‘told MI6 to murder Diana and lover’
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Almost All CCTV Cameras Are Illegal
Out-Law.com
October 1, 2007
As many as 95 per cent of CCTV systems in the UK are operating illegally, according to a CCTV expert. The revelation comes as new legislation is about to take effect in Scotland which could render even more systems illegal.
Companies whose premises have CCTV systems in operation must alert the Information Commissioner that they are gathering personal information about the people they are recording. They must also put up signs to warn the public that recording is taking place.
A new law will come into force in Scotland on 1 November requiring those operating systems on a contract to have a separate licence. The law, which is already in effect in England and Wales, does not apply to operators working directly for the company whose premises are being surveyed.
Bernie Brooks of CCTV compliance consultancy DatPro told OUT-LAW Radio that he comes across few systems that operate within the law.
“From my own my experience after personally surveying many, many hundreds of buildings, I would say probably less than five per cent are compliant,” said Brooks. “I would say that 95 per cent are non-compliant in one way, shape, form or another with the [Data Protection] Act. Obviously, that’s quite a worrying thing. If the system is non-compliant it could invalidate the usefulness of the evidence in a court of law.”
Brooks’s assessment matches that of non-profit CCTV awareness raising body Camerawatch. It said in June that its research showed that over 90 per cent of the UK’s 4.2 million CCTV systems were not compliant with the Data Protection Act.
“That has profound implications for the reputation of the CCTV and camera surveillance industry and all concerned with it,” said Camerawatch chairman Gordon Ferrie in June.
The new law in Scotland could push even more systems into illegal territory. The new licences for individuals is operated by the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
“If you operate CCTV equipment monitoring public or private space and you are monitoring members of the public then it is likely you will need a SIA licence,” said SIA head of investigations Jennifer Pattinson. “The reason for licensing is to remove the criminal element from the private security industry but also to improve levels of training and professionalism in the industry.”
People who work directly for the firm which owns the monitored premises do not need a licence. Pattinson said that this was because companies which directly employ security workers are likely to conduct the kind of thorough background checks that it does when issuing a licence.
The news that almost all systems are likely to operate illegally will raise questions about the effectiveness of CCTV.
The news follows the revelation last week that London’s dense network of CCTV cameras may not have an effect on the solving of crimes. An analysis of London’s 10,000 cameras showed that boroughs with many cameras had no better crime-solving statistics than those with few cameras.
80% UK Crime Unsolved Despite CCTV Cams
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news…/article.do
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80% UK Crime Unsolved Despite CCTV Cams
London Evening Standard
September 19, 2007
London has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost £200 million, figures show today.
But an analysis of the publicly funded spy network, which is owned and controlled by local authorities and Transport for London, has cast doubt on its ability to help solve crime.
A comparison of the number of cameras in each London borough with the proportion of crimes solved there found that police are no more likely to catch offenders in areas with hundreds of cameras than in those with hardly any.
In fact, four out of five of the boroughs with the most cameras have a record of solving crime that is below average.
The figures were obtained by the Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly using the Freedom of Information Act.
Dee Doocey, the Lib-Dems’ policing spokeswoman, said: “These figures suggest there is no link between a high number of CCTV cameras and a better crime clear-up rate.
“We have estimated that CCTV cameras have cost the taxpayer in the region of £200million in the last 10 years but it’s not entirely clear if some of that money would not have been better spent on police officers.
“Although CCTV has its place, it is not the only solution in preventing or detecting crime.
“Too often calls for CCTV cameras come as a knee-jerk reaction. It is time we engaged in an open debate about the role of cameras in London today.”
The figures show:
• There are now 10,524 CCTV cameras in 32 London boroughs funded with Home Office grants totalling about £200million.
• Hackney has the most cameras – 1,484 – and has a better-than-average clearup rate of 22.2 per cent.
• Wandsworth has 993 cameras, Tower Hamlets, 824, Greenwich, 747 and Lewisham 730, but police in all four boroughs fail to reach the average 21 per cent crime clear-up rate for London.
• By contrast, boroughs such as Kensington and Chelsea, Sutton and Waltham Forest have fewer than 100 cameras each yet they still have clear-up rates of around 20 per cent.
• Police in Sutton have one of the highest clear-ups with 25 per cent.
• Brent police have the highest clear-up rate, with 25.9 per cent of crimes solved in 2006-07, even though the borough has only 164 cameras.
The figures appear to confirm earlier studies which have thrown doubt on the effectiveness of CCTV cameras.
A report by the criminal justice charity Nacro in 2002 concluded that the money spent on cameras would be better used on street lighting, which has been shown to cut crime by up to 20 per cent.
Scotland Yard is trying to improve its track record on the use of CCTV and has set up a special unit which collects and circulates CCTV images of criminals.
A pilot project is running in Southwark and Lambeth and is expected to be rolled out across the capital.
The figures only include state-funded cameras.
The true number, once privately run units and CCTV at rail and London Underground stations are taken into account, will be significantly higher.
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CCTV: The Security State As Infotainment
Guardian
August 26, 2007
As protesters gathered recently outside the Security and Prosperity Partnership summit in Montebello, Quebec, to confront George Bush, Felipe Calderón, the Mexican president, and Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, Associated Press reported this surreal detail: “Leaders were not able to see the protesters in person, but they could watch the protesters on TV monitors inside the hotel … Cameramen hired to ensure that demonstrators would be able to pass along their messages to the three leaders sat idly in a tent full of audio and video equipment … A sign on the outside of the tent said, ‘Our cameras are here today providing your right to be seen and heard. Please let us help you get your message out. Thank You.'”
Yes, it’s true: like contestants on a reality TV show, protesters at the SPP meeting were invited to vent into video cameras, their rants to be beamed to “protest-trons” inside the summit enclave. It was security state as infotainment – Big Brother meets, well, Big Brother. The spokesperson for Prime Minister Harper explained that although protesters were herded into empty fields, the video link meant that their right to political speech was protected. “Under the law, they need to be seen and heard, and they will be.”
It is an argument with sweeping implications. If videotaping activists meets the legal requirement that dissenting citizens have the right to be seen and heard, what else might fit the bill? How about all the other security cameras that patrolled the summit – the ones filming demonstrators as they got on and off buses and peacefully walked down the street? What about the mobile phone calls that were intercepted, the meetings that were infiltrated, the emails that were read? According to the new rules set out in Montebello, all these actions may soon be recast not as infringements on civil liberties but the opposite: proof of our leaders’ commitment to direct, unmediated consultation. Elections are a crude tool for taking the public temperature – these methods allow constant, exact monitoring of our beliefs. Think of surveillance as the new participatory democracy; of wiretapping as the political equivalent of MTV’s Total Request Live.
Protesters in Montebello complained that while they were locked out, chief executives from about 30 of the largest corporations in North America – from Wal-Mart to Chevron – were part of the official summit. But perhaps they had it backwards: the CEOs had only an hour and 15 minutes of face time with the leaders. The activists were being “seen and heard” around the clock. So instead of shouting about police-state tactics, maybe they should have said: “Thank you for listening.” (And reading, and watching, and photographing, and data-mining.)
The Montebello “seen and heard” rule also casts the target of the protests in a new light. The SPP is described in the leaders’ final statement as an “ambitious” plan to “keep our borders closed to terrorism yet open to trade”. In other words, a merger of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the homeland security complex – Nafta with spy planes. The model dates back to September 11, when Paul Cellucci, the US ambassador to Canada, pronounced that in the new era, “security will trump trade”. But there was an out clause: the trade on which the economies of Canada and Mexico depend could continue uninterrupted, as long as the governments of those countries were willing to welcome the tentacles of the US war on terror. Canadian and Mexican business leaders leaped to surrender, aggressively pushing their governments to give in to US demands for “integrated” security in order to keep the goods and the tourists flowing.
Almost six years later, the business leaders at Montebello – under the banner of the North American Competitiveness Council, an official wing of the SPP – were still holding up “thickening borders” as the bogeyman. The fix? According to the SPP website, “technological solutions, improved information-sharing, and, potentially, the use of biometric identifiers”. From experience we know what this means: continent-wide no-fly lists, integrated databases, as well as the $2.5bn contract to Boeing to build a “virtual fence” on the northern and southern borders of the United States, equipped with unmanned drones.
In short, under the SPP vision of the continent, “thick” borders will soon be replaced with a nearly invisible web of continental surveillance – almost all of it run for profit. Two members of the SPP advisory group – Lockheed Martin and General Electric – have already received multibillion-dollar contracts from the US government to build this web. In the Bush era, security doesn’t trump big business; it may be the biggest business of all.
In the run-up to the SPP summit, a spate of surveillance scandals helped paint a fuller picture. First, Congress not only failed to curtail the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping but opened the door to snooping into bank records, phone call patterns and even physical searches – all without any onus to prove the subject is a threat.
Next, the Boston Globe reported on plans to link thousands of CCTV cameras on streets, subways, apartment buildings and businesses into networks capable of tracking suspects in real time. And on August 15 confirmation came that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency – the arm of the American military that runs spy planes and satellites over enemy territory – would be fully integrated into the infrastructure of domestic intelligence gathering and local policing, becoming the “eyes” to the National Security Agency’s “ears”.
Add a few more hi-tech tools – biometric IDs, facial-recognition software, networked databases of “suspects”, GPS bundled into ever more electronic devices – and you have something like the world of total surveillance most recently portrayed in The Bourne Ultimatum.
Which brings us back to the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Who needs clumsy old border checks when the authorities are making sure we are seen and heard at all times – in high definition, online and off, on land and from the sky? Security is the new prosperity. Surveillance is the new democracy.
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‘Put CCTV in addicts’ homes to protect children’
Lucy Adams
UK Herald
August 25, 2007
A controversial plan for CCTV to be used to protect children in the homes of chaotic drug-abusing parents has been proposed by one of Scotland’s most eminent drugs experts.
Professor Neil McKeganey, head of the centre for Drug Misuse Research at Glasgow University, believes radical measures are required to protect the estimated 160,000 children in Scotland living with an alcoholic or drug-addicted parent.
He believes the sheer scale of the problem, which was previously estimated as being far lower, makes it impossible for social workers to guarantee children’s safety.
Recent figures suggest more than 50,000 children are estimated to have a parent with a drug problem and around 80,000 to 100,000 have a parent with an alcohol problem.
Social workers and children’s charities last night agreed with the need for debate and further action to protect these children but disagreed with the proposal.
Mr McKeganey is known for his extensive research and controversial views. In 2004, he suggested female drug addicts should be paid to take long-term contraception to stop them having children.
“What price should we put on our privacy?” said Mr McKeganey. “The question is whether we are prepared to say the principle of the privacy of family life is more important than that of child protection. If we accept that privacy is the most important principle then there will be many more tragic cases.
“I am aware that this will be controversial but believe the debate needs to be had. We have become used to the proliferation of CCTV cameras within public spaces. We have also become used to the idea that those cameras are an effective tool in crime prevention. What we have not considered though is their possible use in private spaces.”
Recent child abuse cases have highlighted the urgent need to tackle the problem.
Last year, in the wake of an 11-year-old girl collapsing in a Glasgow primary school suffering heroin withdrawal, Jack McConnell, the then first minister, announced the children of drug addicts would be more likely to be put into care.
In another case in December 2005, two-year-old Derek Doran died in East Lothian after drinking methadone in his parents’ home.
Mr McKeganey added: “The response to this suggestion will be to say that it is the unacceptable extension of big brother’ and a violation of individuals human rights. But the Human Rights Act was never intended to be a get out’ clause for those committing crimes or harming vulnerable children.”
Michelle Miller, the Association of Directors of Social Work spokeswoman on children and families, said: “This is an enormous problem and social workers by themselves are not going to fix it. It is a much wider issue than that and we need to have a detailed debate. This proposal, however, would be completely impractical.”
Anne Houston, chief executive of Children 1st, disagreed with Mr McKeganey’s suggestion. “The money would be better spent in increasing the resources needed to identify and support children affected by drugs and alcohol misuse.”
Meanwhile, an investigation has revealed that young drug addicts in Aberdeen city without dependants are low on the priority list and may have to wait up to two years for help.
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